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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III, pgs. 109-170.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madame Brown try to explain to Kidd?
(a) About the day she tried to flee mental from a hospital.
(b) She never wants to go home.
(c) She was a patient in a hospital.
(d) She is a therapist and can help Kidd.

2. What is the first line of the novel Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany?
(a) So howled out for the world to give him a name.
(b) The in-dark answered with wind.
(c) To wound the autumnal city.
(d) Hall of mirrors.

3. Why does the woman think that Kidd must be older than 27?
(a) He looks older than 27.
(b) He looks like he must be 40.
(c) He thinks he was born in 1924.
(d) He says he was born in 1948.

4. Does Mr. Richards actually work?
(a) No, he lies about where he goes during the day.
(b) He goes to a building were he used to work, but there is no other staff.
(c) Yes, but he is no longer an engineer.
(d) Yes, he owns a whole company.

5. Why does Tak Loufer give the main character the name Kidd?
(a) Because Kidd cannot remember his name.
(b) He looks like a child.
(c) Kidd tells Tak to call him that.
(d) He looks like a goat.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Kidd is finished cleaning, what do the Richards give him?

2. How much is Kidd supposed to be paid for cleaning the apartment?

3. Why is Kidd attacked and beat up by "scorpions?"

4. What do the women whom Kidd meets in Chapter 1 give him?

5. Who is Ernest Newboy?

(see the answer key)

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